World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-02-20
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:00] tomorrow. And that's your hourly weather
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[0:11] [Music]
[0:18] future. On World News Tonight, the FBI
[0:21] agent accused of betraying his country
[0:23] and doing terrible damage, spying for
[0:26] the Soviets and then the Russians.
[0:29] Do the police need a warrant for
[0:31] heat-seeking technology to spy on your
[0:34] home? At the Supreme Court today, a very
[0:37] big case about search and seizure. The
[0:40] promise of a cancer cure beneath the
[0:42] sea. A treasure chest of potential
[0:45] medicine. And Stanley Kramer, the film
[0:48] director.
[0:50] Mom, this is John. An extraordinary
[0:53] career is over.
[0:58] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[1:01] York, this is World News Tonight with
[1:05] Peter Jennings. Good evening everyone.
[1:06] Even before the FBI arrested Robert
[1:08] Philip Hansen and charged him with
[1:10] espionage today, they believed he had
[1:12] done, as someone put it this morning, a
[1:15] hell of a lot of damage to the United
[1:16] States. This father of six who went to
[1:19] the same church as the FBI director is
[1:21] accused of betraying his country. First
[1:23] to the Soviet Union during the Cold War
[1:25] and as recently as Sunday to the
[1:27] Russians and all the time as a
[1:30] counterintelligence agent he was
[1:31] supposed to be spying on them. He worked
[1:34] at the FBI for 27 years. He allegedly
[1:37] became a spy in
[1:39] 1985. The trusted insider who betrayed
[1:42] the trust. We're beginning at the FBI
[1:45] tonight with ABC's Pierre Thomas.
[1:46] Pierre, they said there today it was a
[1:48] great coup to catch him. On the other
[1:49] hand, it took him 15 years to fin